Showing posts with label Life Cycles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Cycles. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2026

How Does Your Garden Grow? Resources for in the Classroom or at Home Learning and a Freebie!

     
    
  How does your garden grow? Do you garden with your students? Whether you are growing beans on the window sill, flowers in a pot, studying different seeds, the life cycle of plants, or go all out with a school or family garden, here are some resources to support your gardening adventure! Introducing gardening and the love of growing plants at an early age is so important. As students are involved in digging in the soil, placing and watering seeds, and waiting to see what will emerge, their love for gardening will also materialize! 


                                   

                         Cut & Paste Emergent Reader
         This cut & paste emergent reader is a perfect way to introduce garden or plant themes. It talks about seeds, soil, watering, and growing of plants. Students can practice their cutting skills while matching the pictures on each page of the book they create. Students love to create their very own books that they can read again and again. 

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     I love the different ways teachers have used these seed packet crafts! Some have used them as plant markers or in their dramatic play area garden shop. Others told me they used them for ABC order or for their word wall. How can you use these seed packets to increase learning?



                               Seed Packet Craft

One teacher said she printed them out, got a few beans seeds, and mailed them home to her students last spring during the beginning of distance learning. For added learning there is a poem on the back of each seed packet!
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Spring planting ties in perfectly with plant life cycles! These plant life cycle activities give you many options to implement.
 

Learning Cube & Graphing Activities
 Plant Life Cycle Cut & Paste Reader
                            
                                          


Plant Life Cycle Posters & Write the Room Activities


Plant Life Cycle Math & Literacy Bundle
These resources can be purchased alone or in the bundle. In the bundle you will find an emergent reader with cut & paste option, a learning cube with graphing activities, a poetry word search and posters with write the room writing activities. These activities will harmonize perfectly with your garden theme or unit!
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Before you get busy growing and learning about plants with your students check out these resources to compliment your garden studies. Click below for more garden themed fun and a couple freebies! One of the things you will find here is positional word readers with garden themes. Each reader comes in three versions, a full color, a black and white, and a cut & paste! 


I hope this sparked some gardening ideas for you or you found some resources for your gardening or plant unit! Let's keep learning! Follow my store below for newest resources and freebies!
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Sunday, March 1, 2026

Spring Themed Resources

 

Spring Themed Resources


 Spring is such a fun time for learning with the anticipation of plants and flowers busting through the ground, beautiful colors all around, weather to talk about, kites flying in the wind and let's not forget about bugs and butterflies!  Let's look at some spring themed resources that will support your classroom or at home learning!

Kites Positional Word Reader

                            
This kite themed emergent reader is a fun way to learn about positional words! Where will my kite take me? This comes in full color or students can make their own reader with the black and white version.


The cut & paste version adds an additional challenge as students select where the kite goes. They will love creating their very own books to read again and again.
                  
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Spring into some math fun with these monthly themed math pages! 

These are geared toward kinders and made with the standards in mind.
Perfect for morning work, daily review, math centers, or at home practice.
                                                                      



The monthly theme is a great way to keep students engaged. Students look forward to seeing the new monthly themes.

Life Cycle Resources

What would spring learning be without the talk of life cycles and butterflies? 
This math & literacy resource includes so many different ways to incorporate learning about butterflies into your spring themed learning.
Place these butterfly posters around your room for write the room and other writing activities. 


Emergent Reader Cut & Paste


Keep the theme going with this reader. Students can complete each page of this reader as they learn about the butterflies life cycle.

For some graphing fun students can create a learning cube to use for these graphing activities. There is also a bonus   poetry word search.

          
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               I love poetry and with April being 
        poetry month it is good time to incorporate 
                    it into your spring learning!  

Poetry Word Searches for Spring


 Each spring themed poem has highlighted words for the student to find in the word search. These can be laminated to use in centers again and again. 
        
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Students love readers and these are another way to celebrate spring. The first is about spring words, students can fill in the picture on each page that matches the spring word.


The second reader is about flowers and is a positional word reader.









I hope you found just the right spring themed resource for your classroom or at home learning to add to your spring time fun!
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